The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 10

TITLE STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919. THERES Poor ot Foolised PeLix' rank Farmer Is Still Youngster; Bald Head Is Only Old Age Sham in Is 29, Says Tacoma Reports, but Frank Talks t His Age, Just Like a Clam; Meets Hector Here jay and Takes or on Begormick Thursday BY LE OH ‘LASSE N Frank Farmer, the terrible logger, isn’t as old as he looks, rts of his age from Tacoma are true. The scorecard of lan Time has years registered opposite his name in league. ater 0 old as athletes go. Farmer looks like a mdfather as soon as he takes off his hat, becauge there ‘about as much thatch on Frank’s dome as there is on a Bete ninds us of the old boy Sampson, he’s so dif-) : nt. When Sampson lost his wool, he was a ruined man, bu the more hair Frank loses from his dome, the stronger} 3 ps, if Farmer would have his head shaved, he would the champion of the world, who know the Sta going thto (one of : Dattles of the y¥ar when he on Young Hector the Bremer at the Crystal Poot Tuesday ity but in dptte of the big weight p. Farmer will be a favorite when he enters the ring is a fast fellow for a man beef, weighing cl to the a mark 1 be able to ix Farmer if goes at his | pace, but her or not can take punishment remains geen, because he hasn't ever @ man here like Farmer. was telling us the other wt he would rather box «a big Hector than a smaller man speed no boxer, and admit it.” “put these bigger fel easier to battle meeting Hector, Farmer igoing up against a big man| pean also box and hit, too. It) CHAMPION the passing of Farmer a5/ Seattle ring fans are really lucky if he takes the short.end| that “Riddy" Bishop, former Tacoma lawant, but it will be curtains | score writer. who is now of Cincy if he loses. The winner! as a fight manager, never had fg bout will stand in linela ‘chance to wish Dick O’Rrien, his (good mihtches here and also! “champion,” on the Seattle fans ie without dispute the heavy-| mishop is almost as good a press Grown of the Northwest agent as Fred Winsor and had us nearly belleving that perhaps O’Brien | | | DANNY FRUSH TOOK | } LONG SLEEP PUNCH} Danny Frush, the English | boxer, who battled Bob Har | per to a draw here last spring, has returned to New York from England, where he was knocked for a goal in four rounds by Young Wad son, the Australian cham pion, Frush claimed the featherweight tithe of Eng land while he was here, but his claims aren't very strong now after taking the sleep punch on the molars. os him out to the Coast. He boxed Carl Morris down in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and was given {the decision and the Golden Ga’ | seribes were unanimous in sdying that it was a rotten verdict and'that Morris won all the way, Well, if |this bird Morris really beat him. |what a bum O'Brien must be. That ix all that is necessary—a licking by Morris heavyweight in jthe world in this hamlet replacing Tommy Gib- of St. Paul, who won't be to box McCormick for some or other, Farmer boxed s short time ago, with the English young- in 18 rounds, at Milwaukee. is a young fellow not to queer any THAT epg ent fr 20 years old. He is a rush- | and a battler, He may be to ay in the near is the kind of New comes Fred Winsor, man ager of Bud Ridley, whom Fred | declares is on the way to the bantam title, with an announce ment that Charley Moy of Los | Angeles, wit is challenging Rid. ley to @ bout, wrighs about 128 pounds or thereabouts and that lets Moy out. Unless we are blind of can't count we believe “sit in on New Year's afternoon that Moy declares in the San [mighty sweet lineup for the Rose| Francisco press that he is will “fans. Farmer meets Boy Mc. | ing to make the bantamweight . the English champion, in| limit, 116 pounds, for Ridley any . d go. and Charley White of | tim It's Moy's word against tackles Muff Bronson of| Fred's and everybedy may de fn the semi-windup. Jack| cide for themself whether or not lian middleweight, bo: Winsor is sidestepping this eight rounds and Eart| match. “and Joe Gorman box eight in the other bout. This is H lineup of boxers. Why it te Portland should be able to im @uch an array of talent for one ft while Seattle fans must witness . Leo Houcks, Lioyd Mad. such week after week is » The local boys battle and but they lose their glamor attraction boxing week after | Like we mentioned the other | this bout he boxes in hie usual they Have been used 0 many | form. Young Sam Langford, who that it is getting hard to tell | jost to Leo Houck, only to get apart. lawt week, will box Joe Har rahban in. one of the other bouts Jimmy. Cole, 125-pounder, service man, takes on cell, the fleet boxer. }look #0 good in his last bout hich and promises to go better thin time. Irving Gleason and Billy Joyce, featherweighta, open the show 10,000 Fans to Sit In on Prep Grid Go Everett Fans Prepare for Big Coast Gridiron Battle Ten thousand fans are expected to sit.in on the Scott High-Everett prep grid battle at Everett on New Year's day New stands are being built at Robinson's field, where the gam will be staged in the northern city, for the largest crowd that ever witnessed an athletic event there. ing to play it over your op- Coach Bagshaw is confident that ponent’s goal, It's a great his eleven will come thru Thursday game and a great ball— eee with his men in tip-top condi eard that Portland ring fans os PRELIMINARIE AT POOL SHOW Jimmy Storey Foley in the will box semi-windup at the Poo! show Tuesday night. For some reason or other, after seeing Foley box several times, we can't figure -him as semi-windup for Seattle, but he may fool us and ttle this time. Storey should Marty draw Ball— An inflated ball invented for intensive army physical training, used in play for @ small group or @ multi tude. This ball is 30 inches in r, heavy water Proof canvas cover with It makes a great ball for gymnasium use equally as well as for outdoor play ground or school use. For field play the grounds should be 150 feet Jong “with elevated nets geross both ends of the 30 feet width. The ball is started in the field center, the object be- THE SPORTING GOODS STORE step in and wee It. tion i« putting them thru light ex ine to keep them in shape. No DCF & Taft Inc. vy work is being done now, ax the Bverett mentor is taking no 09 SECOND AVE. chances with injuries A large delegation of Seattle fans is expected to take in the big game, which will settle the prep grid title for the year, Neither team has lost @ game thi season, Seott high is in Toledo, O. ‘The visitors are en route to Everett from California. Geores Ingle, Beattie ligh'we returned home from the Philippines, where he had a disastrous stay, losing three bouts. George plana to get in condition and Northwest boys of his weight again, could fight and then Bishop brings | eto in | By inclination, | lawea long enough to ply hix calling win | challenge some of the LouGcHt HOUSE Dip! 1 TOLD fry SISTER NOT To DO tT WT SHE Dip! SHE A SHe A FRAME Hou SE F "si A STucco HOUSE NO SHE BOUGHT ) PN Got STuceoEp! Eddie Casey May Be Lost to Harvard Team Eddie Casey, famous Harvard back, may not be able to start in the Harvard- Oregon New Year’s day football cla c at Pasadena because of a bum leg, ac- cording to reports. from the South today. Casey is counted on as the Harvard ace and is said to be the best backfield man of the season. in the Yale game. He received his injuries t MILLIONAIRES IN ACTION ON ICE The Two Slickers i BY CHARLES DRYDEN Leaders Add eS “| ‘How Ralph Douglas Judges Bout Once, upon a gooey midnight, a sterling athlete had very| T woPointsin | Northwest Club Referee Tels How He Decides Verdicts little to think about and not much to do it with. It was long }past the usual hours for baseball and poker, and the sterling) athlete found time hanging heavy on his hands. However, he had taken his weight off his feet without Soccer Race instructions from anyone. Despite the lateness of the hour, many persons of refine-|Carbonado Wins Close One ment, dissolute habits and education—for this was Boston—| were abroad in the drizzle. An intermittent parade of cur-| From Parkers, and Black stained autos went creeping past the hotel on the silent} Diamond Fails to Show asphalt, moving slowly lest they skid. SOCCER LEAGUE STANDING BY ALEX ©. ROSE Over 500 fans and the &kinner & Eady “11 at | Woodland park yesterday afternoon for the arrival of Black Dia mond team, but for reasons nown the miners failed to appear At arbonado, the Woodland Park put up a stiff battle, finishing with the short end of a 2 to 1 score A victory for the Skinner & Eddys gainat Duthies next Sunday wil! put em with Carbonado and a playoff will be to decide the pennant winner ‘Two Stars Missing Without the services of their two beet players —Miller and Neweomb the Woodland. Park team. journeyed to Carbanado and gave the coal dig kere the hardest game tt neon there thin season play was confined to the & | bot Pitteon and Colean de j : ‘ fine wtyte, defying the of Davie and company t thru. A slip backs rel nearly cauned citadel, on my STARS Buck, ve BEEN STRUCK wirTk «A Deprn oe waited patiently ors even necensary t han been The opening ‘ended in) break by one of Carbonado’s half ed the and the the pressure downfall of miners’ the great work of € ving It | Shot after shot wae rained in on| | him, clearing his lines in marvelous fash the but he was equal to the task viewing this parade from of athletes grew imper window a nf Hea w water, even In a frozen state the bean of Cloudy |and in self defense the innkeepers on the Kansas Slicker. | that circuit emp! ed scouts to steer Cloudy Claude was a) pedestrians to the other side of the when opposing batamen al. | street him to stay on the mound Ina word, our hero was a star performer thus: Buck Weaver one morning * Popup batted for Hendrix in the | hurry call from Washington, D. C.,| D a to h ed father at Stowe, Pa.) Davie again put Carbonado in the Real Control urging the parent to pay him a visit.|jead before the interval. Half-time The promptings of his intellect on! Which he was very loathe to do, it| score: Carbonado 2, Woodland Park 1 the night of which we speak ini being then in the heighth of the The second half produced hard. Maude to unscrew an electric light | Pumpkin harvegt: but upon repeated | fast and clever football, but no goals bulb in his room, and to throw a fast |"Teinge and under promise that all! twice the Woodland Parkers’ shots drop from the window on the fourth | ¢¥Penses weuld be met by the filial| nie the uprights and once |floor. His control was marvelous. |*hortstop. the old gentleman at last | nar wag rattled, no it can readily be The bulb exploded on the pavement a come-on neon that the visitors were a few feet behind a passing auto. her Reports much in the limelight |The machine halted and out crawled! patner reported For the winners, Bowers, a gentleman from among his cabaret | speed in an tre syers aod Davin looked best. The party, armed with searchlight and) iia with hin face bogged shining Mehts for Woodland Park Jack, and 4 ing in blasphemous | iienmer furs, which are p Pittaon, Colgan, Fitzpatrick For several minutes the gentleman | UmOn®, the gece i Ms prowled about in the rain, looking |” In season and out for his blow-out, after which he jack ed up the rear end of the machine |thinking, perhaps, the differentia had sprung a charley horse; but the strictest investigation disclosed neth. | Parent under a window at a corner of ing more than a horse laugh from on | ‘he alley high, laugh stood the hotel Course 4 mi 60 cente—the price per bulb. farm. ht times in all did our hero foot |*? the best people of leaning bulbs from nearby ne and ridors until the hotel keeper had sup. plied $4.80 worth of innocent fun and amubement on a rk and night. In a word, #0 accura Cloudy Claude, that each his ton A solo (run) by that young «tar opening the scoring for Carbonado, parting shot sagging the neta far out of Pitteon's White eqtiaiized beauty from the wing that failed to judge is Scores Again Claude Hendrix Davin resulted” in pitcher. his And so, in this extremity, and to amsuage the sufferings of his team: | mates, which were grown very acute reach Bowers went a the cross very | Het io ne evening. Allen hat (nee derby). jown in valent | Pennay! were me appeared follows rbonado~—Bowers, Allen, W. Anderson, W n, Smith B. Ha Davis, Stobbs Hannus Woodland lan While the select company |Old Man Weaver was a a free show to which | mut to give stood on the edge Buck led his only male and the sidewalk Park—Pittson Colgan, Pritebard, Cu ick, Pitson, White Dowie and W. Dowie MeMul urle, Fitz and held him in spicy Smith dis thin to on the while a ¢ » above let 10pound paper bag wiel bag exple which It wna a direct led fair on the dome, crushed in the top of the derby—whieh” filled with water—| stormy |Jammed the rim down over hin ears | was /4nd knocked him drenched and halt | heave | Hensel: hix tonneau with his] brought him a cackle back to the wall | How Do They Do It? | Always’ quick In emergency, the] Eight pills fired at th ioe shortstop placed a foot on) iexnlar me hy tet = neck and, exerting all hia bases on balls and the pate eon mene Ene DY Ob of the gime; and yet, a tatty tact crown siuiced down into t face and suing winter, this ala = | 90 much over his gre whiskers of the shipwrecked come a on and he collapsed against the wall out in the spring for a large in i ve prekae te ablaryooand oat | “Never mind me, men tut what we started to discus in | Women and children first!" the first place was the prank of |(Copyright, 1919 by the Bell Synd-| dropping paper bags of water from jeate, Ine, | weient. cosa hotel windows on the heads of ster. | * at ‘Aberdeen ling athletes and passersby, With! Let's go eat at Roldt’s—uptown, |? Sox, it got so that the 1414 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 2d Ave | hit. ‘The | cor old man's Morrie Lux, the Kansas City wel- ter, is working harder for bis coming h with Johnny MeCarthy, the California harp, than he has worked for = long time There's @ reason Johnny knocked ont Lox in a punch in their first bout, a your and Morrie would rather beat MeCarthy win the weller (ithe of the plate in the meant two) probable lowe during the en-| tist brooded control that night in Boston that he held | than | world. anadian Tillman, of St at Calgary on welter, save the 15-round bout January Harrieau © has got the game on the th, We bin Tacoma heavy On account of raised rent Pipes, Tobaccos and Smokers’ Articles In fact everything for the man who uses tobacco. Prices are cut so low that it will your investigation. eter Se awe: General Repairing CARL'S PIPE HOSPITAL, 107 Second Ave, S. Not the Only Pipe Maker and Repairer Here — But a Good One day, asking for necommodated in th Joo Rivers, the littie Mexican battlér who made « big hit with his classy [work In his bout with Harry Casey here |a short time ago in Lo Angeles, Hin last bout wae with Gene Delmont, which lended in a draw. It was 10 ro | Rivers hurt his shoulder in thin « |has not heen abie to work since. will be brought back to Seattle for a | bout In the early part of February Willie K local neayywelght, used Pie Inco under the er, & couple of years OE, a erding to Southern scribes, ai i ll tte end. | beat ‘forts! ‘ with al | league | Three teams will t | taken tonight on this question | | % | the Oregon football ¢ | pany Jix limping | cripple i ‘Knockdown Counts One Round { In answer to a request of The Star sport editor, } Ralph Douglas, Northwest Athletic club, has 1 written the following on how to judge ring bouts: , BY RALPH DOUGLAS ( There are four distinct rules that I instruct boxers { before a bout, and if they break any of these rules they {| should be penalized the same as in other sports. § ; First of all, ( Second, I cautions them against foul blows. { Third, to step back one pace when I order them to} § break, and to break clean, and the man who continues’; to hold on after I order them to break is cautioned, and if he continues it I count it against him. ) Fourth, if one opponent is knotked down then the other { opponent must retire to his corner until the man is on his }| } feet again. { I judge the points scored as follows: Effective leads; } counters and counter attacks; protecting himself from attacks; clean blows landed; knockdowns. I count against him any deliberate tatempts to foul, hitting in a break- away on my orders to break, back handed blows, stalling, alg foul and abusive language. ) ‘There are the main things I watch for and judge the \ fight round by round. If a knockdown occurs, I give that } } round to the boxer who scores the knockdown. There- } \ fore, if a boxer has won the majority of rounds and is} | knocked down in the last round, I only count that round 1 against him. I believe that the system employed in Seattle, two judges and a referee, | is the proper sy stem. Star League ‘to Hold Big MeetT onight ‘Play, Starts in Star Circuit Saturday Night; Three | Teams May Fall Out : j Every team in The Star basketball | should be represented tonight | meeting to be held at The| r office. ‘The scaxian will open | Sp. m The play ————___—____—_®, | Swastika Star _ Making Good on _Lincoln Circuit | et starts Saturday night at the Y. M. C. A. The ule has peen made out as yet, but will ided upon at tonight's session. | At present 11 teams are entered. | dropped to make | the circuit eight clubs or one more | club will be added, Action will be chi And then the constitution and by: laws of the league will be offered for approval by the committee ap pointed by Prexy Chase | If the league is cut ight teams | there will be games played by the} Y. M. Cc. A. and Knigh of Colum bus, t y holding their games on Saturday night and the K. of C. on| Wednesday the ‘or play Co. B squad | | | | teams in the league are with the exception which hasn't any Rainier and are nization ag y 18 of the American Legion Soldiers’ and Satlors b slow in reporting their progress. The other squads in the ciroult are | Y. M. C. A, Knights of Cal-| umbus, Piper & Tafts, Spaldings, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance com: University Community five, MacDougal-Southwick and Brew ster's Cigar Co. “DOC” POWERS, CAGE CAPTAIN, IS INJURED the five, in is laid up with a May not be able to time. He hurt his the other night, and around first-class | “Doc” Powers, captain of Knights of Columbus cage the Star league, Jbum foot, an | play for | foot in practice Bill Nollan Working well in practice sessions, Bill Nolan, player, some Lincoln high school cage is being slated for a forward His services will be missed, | Job on tne Rafisplitters’ quintet. Bill As he is rated as one of the best cage | was with the Swastikas last men in the eity year, junior Y. M,C. A a star champions. [HARVARD PUTS IN LAST HEAVY 'WORK FOR BIG GRID MIX TODAY PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 29.—With grand stand, en in the best | least 30,000 possible condition, H ard this aft ard graduates are ernoon put in ite last hard serim nd some of the best football before the New Yoar's gridiron sic at ‘Tournament park ‘ The remaining days pr kame will be devoted to making the capacity at | exe |for the encoun With = betting — pr light | some enthusiastic | reported at 2 to 1 on Harvard The Crimson men have the advan. | ball experts who hav age in weight, but Oregon has the | teams in py r team, The Harvard players | Ore n perspiring freely at every tically even, the work west watehed both » openly picking Thursday's winner etice a pec on as have by practice Johnny Gilroy, one of Seattle's leading billiard players, and cashier cot, and ‘Teddy Sampson will be the} at Brown & Hulen’s for the past good luck impersonation for Oregon, | several months, has joined the Both are motion picture playera, benedicts. Mr. and Mrs, Gilroy left Tournament park has been in ni Montana for an extended visi Viola Dana will be Harvard's mas- A process of improvement, Thousands | Mrs. Gilro was formerly May of seats have been added to the|Johnson, @ Seattle gin I instruct them to fight clean. {| arriving | ts of the nation will be on hand | wagers have been | Vancouver to ‘Open Hockey Season T oday Victoria Shows Strong De- fense, Says Seattle Pilot; Play Wednesday | | Seattle hockey fans will have a pretty good line on the Vancouver Millionaires after their game with Victoria in Vancouver tonight in the | firmt tilt of the season for the Vi |cauver men. Seattle fell before Vie- { | toria In the first game of the season | Friday night, 2 to 1. How Vancouver | stacks up againet the Victoria men | will make interesting dope for the wg fans. Vancouver opens the Seattle sea- son here Wednesday night. The |iocal men weren't in the best of | shape when they opened in Vict | the other night because of the short ltraining season, and tired after the j first 20 minutes of play. The men will work out today and tom for the game with Vancouver ind | should be in much better shape for | the first game here Wednesday. | “Watch this young fellow Wilfred Loughlin, Victoria defense man, this feawon,” says Pilot Pete Muldoog of the local squad | “Loughlin hes size and speed ana | was the biggest factor in Vi 3 win the other night over the squad, scoring one goal and in the other. The Victoria is stronger than ever this year, their scocring machine could be! im- proved upon.” Vancouver has a great scoring machine this season, according to reports from the north. Skinney their new center tce man; Taylor, Bill Adams, Harris and Cook all swing mean maces on the little ber disk When shooting it at Just bow this crew stack# up Victoria will give Seattle fans a pretty good idea of whaf*the | Mets will be up against Verge here. who mid the American league is « corporation? Dan Howley, who acted as coach for the Detroit pitchers last season, and the |year before managed Toronto, has Leen engaged to manage the Hartford team, jof the Eastern league, next year. With the Moreini Bill Rodgers expects to put the Sacra~ | mento team in the Pacific Coast league |race next season. Maybe the Moreings 1 San wend Rodgers East to capture a few ball players. packing him up, Moon Ducote, omificider of the Mobile Southern league team, and former college athiete, now playing professional football with « Cheve- land team, has been re~ coach the football squad of Spring Hill college, at Mobile. There won't be nor any baseball with the éx- Notice to ball players any third major league, George Washington ton Braves, mays he Maranville if h a deal that w |Doubtiess it strengthening the Braves on the playin |field that he let Art Nehf go to New York Having failed to put the rollers under Roger Bresnahan, some of his minority stockholders at Toledo are now insisting that he bay them pat, They allege there ts no hope for/im- 9S gen in baseball conditions at Toledo with Koger in control, so they want to get out of it. Jimmy Hamilton. former Vancouver | pilot, who managed Peoria in the Three-t league last year, has finally made up bis mind as to his 1920 operations by a cepting the offer of the Joplin club, Woatern league 8 leaves Peoria BIN Jacks: last probably will be the Hamilton succeeds Joplin, Rudy being - tub decided to employ & play- ing manager the Rarney Dreyfuss’ selection of George Gibson as manager of the Pirates was received in Pittsburg. In fact, Gib= was the only logical selection if | Bendek was not to be retained. His long with Pittsburg and his good work Jentitied him to it is that Dy let ou jtne v The surprising thing yfuse was so Ung us As to n after the faithful service eran catcher had | His appointment as acknowledgment and that is said without r ment as to whether George has not the qualifications (hat make cessful manager—but there is no evidence that has has not The Chicago White Sox have signed California pitching phenom named Milt Steomagrafe. He hails from Qakl and is a right-hander, Me has had no professional experience, but has doue some good work fi around Oakland, ommended him, nor why some ‘sxed dim league club did not eres 9 ae =